You can read an English version of the story here, courtesy of Google Translate. The walkout occurred at Nokia’s Tampere offices in Finland, where about 1,500 of the nearly 3,000 employees work on the Symbian operating system — the same operating system that will be phased out in favor of Windows Phone 7 as part of the deal. (Though see the caveats from a Nokia spokesperson in the comments of our initial announcement post.)

Employees at the Oulu offices, where about half of the 2,000-person workforce is involved in Symbian, reportedly “erupted” after the announcement.